Books

Sanctions and the Search for Security

Sanctions and the Search for Security

(Lynne Rienner, 2002) By David Cortright and George A. Lopez.
 

Following the publication of The Sanctions Decade — lauded as the definitive history and accounting of United Nations sanctions in the 1990s — David Cortright and George

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Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft

Targeting Economic Statecraft

(Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) Edited by David Cortright and George A. Lopez.
 

In recent years, international attention has turned toward the use of targeted, “smart” sanctions that minimize unintended humanitarian consequences and focus coercive…

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Political Gain and Civilian Pain

Political Gain and Civilian Pain

(Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) Edited by Thomas G. Weiss, David CortrightGeorge A. Lopez, and Larry Minear.

The use of sanctions is increasing in the post-cold war world. Along with this increase, the international community must ask…

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